Cnidus
Knidos or Cnidus was a Greek city in ancient Caria and part of the Dorian Hexapolis, in south-western Asia Minor, modern-day Turkey. It was situated on the Datça peninsula, which forms the southern side of the Sinus Ceramicus, now known as Gulf of Gökova.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient city of Caria in modern-day Turkey
- Also known as: “Knidos”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Temple of Aphrodite, Knidos.
Temple of Aphrodite, Knidos
Ruins
Photo: Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Temple of Aphrodite Euploia was a sanctuary in ancient Knidos dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite. It was a famous pilgrimage, known for hosting the famous statue of Aphrodite of Knidos. Temple of Aphrodite, Knidos is situated 370 metres northwest of Cnidus.
Cnidus
- Categories: human settlement, polis, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Datça, Muğla Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Cnidus” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كنيدوس”
- Armenian: “Կնիդոս”
- Basque: “Knido”
- Belarusian: “Горад Кнід”
- Belarusian: “Кнід”
- Breton: “Knidos”
- Bulgarian: “Книдос”
- Catalan: “Cnidos”
- Chinese: “克尼多斯”
- Chinese: “尼多士”
- Chinese: “尼多斯”
- Czech: “Knidos”
- Danish: “Knidos”
- Dutch: “Cnidus”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كنيدوس”
- Esperanto: “Knido”
- Finnish: “Knidos”
- French: “Cnide”
- Galician: “Cnido”
- Georgian: “კნიდოსი”
- German: “Knidos”
- Greek: “Κνίδος Καρίας”
- Hebrew: “קנידוס”
- Hungarian: “Knidosz”
- Indonesian: “Knidos”
- Irish: “Knidos”
- Italian: “Cnido”
- Japanese: “クニドス”
- Korean: “크니도스”
- Latin: “Cnidus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Knidos”
- Norwegian: “Knidos”
- Persian: “کنیدوس”
- Polish: “Knidos”
- Portuguese: “Cnido”
- Russian: “Книд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Knid”
- Slovenian: “Knidos”
- Spanish: “Cnido”
- Swedish: “Knidos”
- Turkish: “Knidos”
- Ukrainian: “Кнід”
- Urdu: “کندس”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cnidus”. Photo: Tischbeinahe, CC BY-SA 3.0.